Your mortgage, your overbearing boss, your backtalking kid, your dating life, your term paper, the holidays…

Yeah, life is stressful. And as if there wasn’t already enough things out there that can kill you, here comes your chronic worrying to finish the job.

AsapSCIENCE takes a brief look at the negative health effects of too much stress and comes to one simple conclusion – chill out and spend some time with friends, man. It turns out you may actually need that after-work beer with your buddy, or that relaxing weekend getaway with your significant other.

It’ll also help you de-stress after watching this video, which will probably stress you out too. Sorry.

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